Santa Monica
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Phranc : Queer For 50 Years : a solo exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
To celebrate Phranc’s fiftieth anniversary of coming out, Queer for 50 Years opened on October 11th, National Coming Out Day. For this body of work, Phranc sculpted boxing shorts, boxers, and socks out of cardboard, kraft paper, and thread, then painted the surfaces with vivid colors and stripes. As a self-described multi-disciplinary “queer artist, Jewish…
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LA Photographer RICK CASTRO’s latest book “S/M BLVD,” features a collection of male hustlers on Santa Monica Boulevard
Between 1986 and 1999, the photographer Rick Castro created an archive of portraits using the street hustlers of Santa Monica Boulevard as subjects. Save for individuals he met while traveling in Europe, nearly all of the subjects in this collection were found on a 20-block stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard loosely boundaried by…
